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UNITED STATES HUGH MCMILLIAN REID AND ABRAM C. PHEIL, OF INVERNESS, FLORIDA' PATENT OEFrcE.

SAID REID ASSIGNOR TO SAID PHEIL.

SAFE OR VCUPBOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 506,794, dated October 1'?, 1893.

Application filed April 30, 1892. Serial No. 431,323. (No model.) v

to provide a device of this class with means for trapping or otherwise excluding ants, vermin, dac., from the cupboards; to provide a device which may be arranged upon the floor, suspended from the ceiling, or attached to a wall either in the corner or otherwise; and to provide means for arranging a refrigerating material in proximity thereto, when such is desirable. It is common in devices of this class to place the feet or standards in `receptacles containing water or other liquid or to apply such receptacles to intermediate points of the standardsin such positions as to impede the passage of insects from the floor Such means, we will, for convenience, classify under the general term of exposed traps for the reason that the contained liquid and other means employed for catching the insects are exposed and in time become covered by a deposit of dust, &c. This deposit or accumulation upon the surface of the material contained in the receptacles frequently becomes sufficiently sub# stantial to aord insects an easy approach to the safe, and hence, to guard against such contingencies, it is our object to provide a covered trap whereby the accumulation of -dustupon the surface of the liquid is 'prevented, or at least diminished. Furthermore, it is common -in devices of this class to suspend the safe in such a manner as to cut 0E access from the floor and also from the ceiling, so far as direct means are concerned, but we have found that insects will frequently reach a point upon the ceiling directly over a safe so arranged and from there will drop to the top of the same, from which they may readily gain access to the interior. Furthermore, it is frequently inconvenient to be limited as to the manner of arranging a safe. and, therefore, it is our object to provide such a construction that the safe proper shall be completely isolated from its supporting framework, in order that the latter may be arranged in either of the positions above mentioned without reducing the effectiveness of the means provided for preventing the ingress of insects.

Further objects and advantages of our invention will appear in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view embodying the features of the invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section. Fig. 4 is-a horizontal section on the line y-y, Fig. 1.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corq responding parts in the several views.

Our improved device consists, essentially, of a supporting frame-work, the construction ofwhich may be varied to suit the taste of the manufacturer, but is preferably of skeleton form and is provided with a horizontal top or roof, and a safe proper of any suitable or approved construction suspended from the said top or roof by means of hangers whose lower ends are arranged in a tank or receptacle designed to contain water or other liquid, the said safe proper being out of contact with the supporting frame Work and arranged at such intervals from the members thereof that the passage of insects fromone to the other is impossible.

preferably closed by means of a wall 9, which,

when the device is suspended against a wall, is adapted to be arranged in contact therewith. The object of this rear Wall 'isto'prevent the accumulation of dust and dirt upon the rear side of the safe proper and to pre- Ventobjects placed upon the top or roof of the ICO supporting frame work from falling down bel hind the safe and bridging the interval between the same and the wall.

The top or roof is provided with a trap 8, for a purpose which will be hereinafter explained.

The safe proper, which is illustrated at 10, and may be of any preferred construction with regard to the shelving and compartments, is provided at its top with a tank or receptacle 11 which is formed by the roof 1la and the sides l1", which extend vertically above the plane of said roof and terminate short of ,the

under surface of the top or roof of the supporting frame-Work.

Hangers for connecting the safe pro-perto the supporting frame work are shown at 12, and they consist of vertical bolts extending through vertically aligned perforations inthe top or roof of the supporting frame-work and the bottom of the tank or receptacle, said bottom being identical, in the construction illustrated,with the roof of the safe proper. These hanger bolts are spaced from the sides of the tank or receptacle-and are designed to extend' vertically downward `through the water or other liquid contained in the tank. The bolts are preferably provided with non-corrosive sheaths 13to p lotect them from injury by the Water or liquid. This being the construction of our device, the advantages derived therefrom willbe readily understood.

It will be noted that the safe iscompletely separated from and independent of the supporting frame work except through the hanger bolts, and, therefore, the means for excluding insects from the safe are entirely independent of any means which may be employed for supporting or suspending the structure. ,If, resting upon the ground or floor, insects may climb the standards and therebyreach the under surface of the top or roof of thesupporting frame-work from whiohpoint the only means of communication with the safe are the vertical bolts, whose lower ends are insulated by the water or liquid contained in the tank or receptacle. If the device is attached to a wall or is suspended from the ceiling, and insects reach the upper surface of the top or roof, they must pass around the edge of the same to reach the under surface, fromvwhich point the bolts form the only means of lcommunication with the safe. It will be seen, furthermore, that the top or roof'of the supporting frame work completely covers the tank or receptacle and thus excludes dust from the latter; and, furthermore, by the arrangement of this tank or receptacle, it may be constructed ofv greater. capacity and area thanif independent tanks or receptacles were attached, respectively, to the standards. Furthermore, this tank or receptacle forms a convenient container for ice or other refrigerating material, and access thereto may be gained through the trap 8.

VFor convenience in removing the water or liquid `from the ytank or receptacle, We provide a drain pipe provided with a faucet 15. The water orliquidv maybe introduced by means of the trap 8.

A further advantage in arranging the tank or receptacle to cover the entire top ofthe safe proper isfthat it in itself vforms a refrigerating means, even when supplied merely with Water or other liquid.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is Acupboard comprisinga supporting framework, having a solid or closed back or rear side, and an imperforate` roof, a pendent safe arranged within and out of contactwith said frame-work'beneath theroof thereof andprovided at its top with a co-extensivetank or receptacle formed by the Vsides .of the safe which are extended vertically .above the roof thereof and terminate short of theunder surface ofthe roof of the frame-work,and hanger bolts engaging aligned perforations in the roof ofthe frame-work and the roof Aof the `safe and passing through the interior=ofvthetank or receptacle out of contact with its side Walls, whereby they are insulated by the water orother liquid contained in the tank .or receptacle, substantiallyas specied. v

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereto affixedour signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

vHUGH lMCMILLIAN REID.

ABRAM C. PHEIL.

Witnesses:

S. T. SISTRUNK, J. A. MUNDEN. 

